<html><head></head><body>We need to be able to distinguish between the object no longer being present, and the object still being present but its usage having changed. If it is likely to be of historical and/or landmark interest, tagging both the historical name and current name is useful.<br>
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<b>From:</b> Serge Wroclawski <emacsen@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> March 4, 2014 8:09:01 AM CST<br>
<b>To:</b> Theodin <theodin@posteo.de><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Open Street Map Talk-US <talk-us@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] historic schools (amenity=school; name= * (historical)<br>
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<pre class="k9mail">All gnis objects that are "(historical)" are no longer present and<br />should be removed.<br /><br />- Serge<br /><br />On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Theodin <theodin@posteo.de> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi fellow mappers,<br /><br /> While doing some TIGER cleanup, I often stumble over historical schools tagged as:<br /> amenity=school<br /> name=some small town school (historical)<br /><br /> which are rendered on the map with their name. Are there any ideas for a better tagging as most of<br /> them (all?) arent really schools any more.<br /> I tagged some as<br /> historic=school<br /> which was in the database 80 times. Any better ideas?<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Theodin<br /><br /><hr /><br /> Talk-us mailing list<br /> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /> <a
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